BEK Talks About His Memoir on “Fresh Air”; A Very Close Look at The New Yorker’s 7th Issue

  Here’s a link to New Yorker cartoonist BEK (Bruce Eric Kaplan) speaking on NPR’s Fresh Air about his forthcoming memoir, I Was A Child. Link here to see his New Yorker work _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery  continues its series of close-looks at the earliest issues of The New Yorker.  Next up: The 7th issue, April 4, 1925.

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Bruce Eric Kaplan’s Memoir

Well here’s something to look forward to next Spring: a memoir by Bruce Eric Kaplan, familiar to New Yorker cartoon enthusiasts as BEK.  The book, I Was A Child: A Memoir is due April 14, 2015 from Blue Rider Press. Here’s a blurb about it from Lena Dunham (Mr. Kaplan is a producer of Ms. Dunham’s HBO television show, Girls): “In

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